Rick Wilmot Coach Bio

Ex-McKinsey EM, Ross MBA

Rick started his career as an engineer at a fast-growing future "tech unicorn", before accepting an MBA fellowship at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business with the goal of breaking into MBB.

While at Michigan, Rick interviewed with nearly a dozen major consulting firms before accepting both Summer and full-time Associate roles with McKinsey, also serving as a consulting interview coach for both undergrads and MBA1s.

During his four years at McKinsey, in addition to serving clients across a wide range of industries and topics, Rick co-led the firm's Michigan recruiting efforts. He was deeply involved in candidate identification, selection, and pre-interview coaching, and as a core member of the firm’s Midwest Office interviewing team, he conducted over 100 first-round interviews with undergraduates, MBAs and Advanced Professional Degree candidates from dozens of different schools, also participating in the post-interview decision-making process for hundreds more.

After McKinsey, Rick went on to become an IBM exec and lead a private tech venture incubator backed by one of his former consulting clients. Today, when not working with MC's clients in whatever area they need (case, behavioral, resume, networking advice, etc.), he focuses on investing in, working with and advising startup tech companies in the B2B GenAI space.

Get to Know Rick

Intro Video

A quick background on Rick and his coaching philosophy

Podcast Interview

Rick shares his story as a McKinsey EM and touches upon valuable topics such as the evaluation process and office selection

Case Demonstration

An example of how Rick works with candidates for case prep